Q&A: How AI might become the future of hurricane flood forecasting

Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting. In 2024, an AI-based model created by Google correctly predicted Hurricane Beryl would make landfall in Texas while a top ...

Scripps' ocean simulator SOARS unlocks secrets of the sea and sky

UCSD's SOARS simulator recreates ocean conditions to help scientists study how the sea and atmosphere interact.

‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...
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Mechanisms Linking Stratospheric Gravity Wave Activity to Hurricane Intensification: Insights From Model Simulation of Hurricane Joaquin

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

What could Hurricane Milton do to Tampa Bay? Here's a 'catastrophic' scenario.

What could Hurricane Milton do to Tampa Bay? Here's a 'catastrophic' scenario. Four years ago, a disaster planning project called "Hurricane Phoenix" imagined what the worst-case scenario would be for ...